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Series: Urban Solutions

Dream and Hustle Sessions - October 27, 2024

We talk about updates, recent articles and the upcoming massive layoff wave preparations.

My Recent Trip to Colombia and Calling Out the Passport Bros

My review and observations from a real one who was on the ground.

Revisiting Balloons and Airships with New Paradigms

Modern balloon technology and landscape reengineering can create new paradigms

The Dubai Protocol: Building a Digital Ecosystem for the Movers and Makers

A space for those about their business and got something of value to contribute

Digital-First Strategies and Modern Patterns for Rural Revitalization

Patterns and practices from China and Japan on how to create and refurb rural areas for a new future.

Dream and Hustle Sessions - July 28, 2024

In this episode - upcoming Tokyo journey, Sonia Massey situation, Dubai real estate, Discord and AI.

Republic Lounge Killing Show Nightclubs Have to Transition to Membership Only

No nightclub should allow non-member walk-ins in this day and age.

How to Beat Jerome Powell Trying to Shock the Black Community into Economic Devastation

The Fed interest hikes are designed to shock America into unemployment and less credit

Launching a New Paradigm, New Realm of The Manufactured Solution

No more teasers, no more delays, and implementation are full-on.

Physically Recovering While Economic Marginalization Underway

Guess who suffers the hardest when the Fed increase interest rate?

Brothas and Sistas Prepping Strategy for a Recession in 2022

We always have options; stay resilient and positive

Creating the First Unapologetic Matchmaking Platform for Black Men

Because real brothas worked too hard to be dating man-hating THOTs

To Make Money, Have to Learn How to Take Money

Can easily read folks hustle by simply looking at their payment model.

Prepping for the Inflation Collapse as an Urban Black Person

Urban Black folks has a unique landscape to protect from hyperinflation.

Creating Pedestrian Malls Under Lake Street and 63rd Street Elevated Tracks

Looking at Tokyo to Create a Pedestrian Mall on Chicago West Side and South Side

Homeless 2.0: Transitioning from Stigma to Off-Grid Solo Journey and Survival

We never defined true homeless in America – we going to start addressing this today.

Backgrounder on Our Early Adopter Program, Who Qualifies and Eligible

A lot of Dream and Hustle supporters may not realize they are eligible for early access.

Top of Mind Matters for Black America Regarding Summer 2021

The summer of 2021 will be both adverse with opportunity and rapid escalation of changes, this article discuss how we plan to navigate change.

The Path to Black Excellence Requires Pursuing the PMC

The biggest mistake is brothas and sistas trying to pursue Black Excellence through Black Ignorance spaces – it has to be done through the Professional Managerial Class or PMC.

Upcoming Black Economic Boom Need Agents and Brokers: How to Handle Yours

Working from home? Better get that side hustle going to take part in the upcoming massive economic expansion

Dream and Hustle Sessions: Leverage Tax Credits as a Business Model in the Black Community

An emerging business model no one is publicly talking about is taking advantage of IRS tax credits to help larger firms and investors offset their own tax liabilities - this podcast covers an overview for you to explore the opportunities.

Upcoming Black Economic Explosion is Mind-Blowing: Prepare for the Awesome

The impending Black entrepreneurial explosion will be more resilient and more lucrative than any time in our history. But you got to be savvy and sophisticated to take advantage of the digital transformation period ahead.

Reinventing Digital Dating Services Around an Economic Ecosystem

It is a mistake to view dating other than a local fiscalism economic activity. This article will discuss how to create a modern digital dating system to focus on reconnection and recovery in a pandemic-era.

Too Far Gone and No Way Back

We have to conclude it is too unfeasible to save the existing Black community and will fall to gentrification. However, we can innovate and transform what a Black community is in the 21st century.

Prolonged Eviction Moratorium Will Silently Destroy Our Communities

The eviction moratorium is an artificial market constraint to transition smaller landlords to corporate landlords while tenants in rent arrears unable to remain living in their current community.

Black Ownership: Transforming the Gig Economy to Our Economy

We don't need to wage-slave on gig economy jobs; we can set up that same operation in our hood. It just takes understanding operating collectives, managing datasets, and running the corners in our community. In this article, we will discuss how this is done.

ADOS United: Teams and Value Streams

This article covers the ADOS United Super PAC platform and process designed to facilitate the ADOS movement towards growth and progress.

Four Things Black Folks Better Worry About the Morning After Election Day

Our people love pyrrhic victories – trying to win a small battle only to find out they lost the war. No matter who wins, the day after Election Day will be a wake-up sobering moment our people better be prepared for.

Prepping Food, Assets and Skills for Economic Downturn

It is getting really bad and desperate out here and this podcast covers what people should be doing to prepare themselves for what's going down.

Prep Yourself to Understand How a Product Service System Work

A Product Service System (PSS) is a platform designed to deliver experiences to customers and more robust than an e-commerce platform. This article will cover PSS in detail.

How to Design Your Black-Owned Business with Event-Centric Patterns

To prepare for AI-assisted business operations, entrepreneurs need to throw away their business books and focus instead on responding to the business events that will occur. This article will give insight on event-based design.

From Tokyo With Love: Launching A New Era for Urban Entrepreneurs

We are now finally ready to launch our platforms and solutions - but first, we want to share with you the place that inspired us on the journey - Tokyo.

Using Narrative Economics to Create Positive Change in the Black Community

Economies are driven by narratives. Unfortunately, current black community narratives are negative causing our economics to be negative. This article will show how to leverage narrative-driven economies to empower and uplift black communities.

How to Create a Drop Culture Event

Drop Culture is the art of dropping your product/service into a “culture” instead of a supply chain. We are going to share our notes on how to facilitate a drop culture event.

Navigating ADOS Through Inevitable Urban Intersectionality and Appropriation

As the world become more urbanized with the diverse migrants settling in major cities, intersectionality and appropriation occurs. This article discusses how ADOS who traditionally held down major cities have to confront this reality.

How to Create a Digital Storytelling Agency for the Black Business Community

In order to establish progress and empowerment, the black community has to take control and ownership of their story. There is a huge untapped business opportunity to re-create the “typing pool” business model to service businesses and entrepreneurs and we going to show how to do it.

Implementing Product Service Systems to Help Urban Entrepreneurs Create Multiple Value Streams

In African-American communities, entrepreneurs typically provide value creation via a singular product or service offering resulting in linear growth traps. To promote recession-proof black economic development and expanded value creation, a Product Service System must be adopted in the hood and this article will show how to implement.

What You Need to Know About Micro-Collateral Trusts for Secondhand Retailing

Micro-collateral trust retailing is an anti-pattern pawn shop model where the business become the pledgee and investors become the pledgor of specific used valuable products sold in the resale shop. There are several advantages for this new paradigm of retailing for economic development in urban communities and we will cover them in this article.

Creating Modern Bus Terminal Hubs in Black Communities to Drive Economic Growth

The biggest casualty of the Civil Rights battle were the bus terminals. African-American communities failed to understand massive economic potential creating their own bus terminals in their communities to drive tourists and shoppers into their commercial zones. In this article, we are going to take a deeper look into how black communities today can establish modern bus terminal hub to serve commuters and boosting their local economy.

Rethinking the Role of Real Estate for Urban Economic Empowerment

Millennial hip hop hustle culture love to babble about “buying the block” as an urban economic empowerment solution. The assertion purchasing commercial real estate as a path towards economic empowerment may be antiquated and outdated - we will explain the reason why.

Understanding the HENRY, NINJA and LENDME Demographics Among African-Americans

In this article, we are to cover the HENRY, NINJA and LENDME demographics in the African-American community.

Using Blockchain for Urban Barbershops to Establish Micro-Delivery Hubs

Urban barbershops are disrupted everyday with uninvited solicitors peddling socks and bootlegs to their waiting customers. In this article, we are going to discuss implementing a blockchain micro-delivery solution to resolve the barbershop/peddler contention.

Can You Bootstrap a Hood Media Distribution Empire with $15 DVD players from Goodwill?

Is it possible to launch a local media network where blank DVDs are recorded with curated content and shipped to local shops to broadcast? We will analyze if this business approach is bootstrappable.

Rethinking Third Spaces in the African-American Community

Third spaces are areas urban people hang out beside home and work. The African-American community current state of decline is primarily due to the lack of attractive third spaces. We are going to cover how the African-American community can incorporate compelling third spaces using practices and patterns from urban centers around the world.

Creating an Urban Food Supply Line Using Blockchain and Offshore Aquaculture

The most successful urban communities have one essential characteristic – they own and manage their food and water supply. In this article we are going to show how the African-American community have to consider off-site aquaculture as the most realistic model of establishing a food supply chain into the black community.

How to Make Boss Moves on the Growing Digital-First Music Scene

A new paradigm is rapidly emerging in the music industry as music fans and music producers move to a digital-first consumption of music in a more experiential environment. This article aims to help entertainment-based entrepreneurs learn how to navigate and thrive in the transformative digital-first music landscape.

How to Create a Blockchain-Driven Urban Shoe Club for the Hood

Urban teens can learn about collective operations and the sharing economy by creating a mutual company while sharing quality kicks between each other plus receive dividend payouts from the mutual profits.

How to Leave that Ghetto Ass Cyber-Clique and Form Your Own ADOS Digerati Cyber-Squad

The Afro-Tech does not entertain social cliques so you'll need to create a cyber-squad to make the kind of moves needed to make progress. Let's talk about how to establish a squad to get things done and your whole crew stay lit.

Creating a Peer to Peer Blockchain Hood Incident Coverage Platform

One of the biggest fear and concern in the black community is if something bad happen, it will be a devastating financial impact even just to pay deductibles or come up with money. A peer to peer blockchain coverage system can provide a solution and we cover the model in detail in this article.

If You Still Going Out to Eat, You Not Doing It Right

Going out to eat can be unhealthy, expensive and non-intimate between couples. The best expression a man or woman can show as love is the joy of meal making for themselves and for others. We are moving forward with a major effort within the African-American community to return our culture back to embracing the essentialism of food and the joy of meal making.

RBS Episode #2 : Live Stream Retailing

Live stream retailing uses Facebook Live to pitch a product for sale and facilitate customer interactions and sales through Facebook Chat. This podcast provide insights on our research and potential on how to setup a Live Stream Retail show.